Inquiry regarding the name of subprocess.Popen class

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:34:35 -0300, Derek Martin <code at pizzashack.org>  
escribi�:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:16:00PM -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 03:09:18 -0400, Derek Martin <code at pizzashack.org>
>> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>>
>> > struct run {
>> > 	int speed;
>> > 	direction_type direction;
>> > };
>> >
>> > Not a function.  Describes an action.  Sure, you'll probably never see
>> > this example in a real program.  But that doesn't mean you can't do
>> > it, and it doesn't make it inherently wrong.  Someone somewhere might
>> > very well find a legitimate use case.
>> 	
>> 	Does neither for me... It defines a (physics) VELOCITY (a direction
>> and a speed, but lacking in starting position and in duration).
>
> OK... so, let me ask you then: I have a computer program that graphs
> the state of a particular act of running over time t.  The only
> information the program cares about is the speed and direction of that
> particular instance of running.  What would your data structure look
> like?

I'd use the name "velocity", a noun, as Dennis Lee Bieber already said. In  
pedantic mode, "average velocity".
If you still want to push further such ridiculous example I'll have to  
think that you're just trolling.

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Gabriel Genellina